Walker Wood

Walker Wood (April 23, 1874 - February 3, 1957) was an American journalist and politician from Mississippi.

[1] He was in charge of the Oxford Eagle from 1892 until he purchased the Senatobia Democrat and started being the editor of that newspaper in 1899.

[1] On April 7, 1926, he was appointed to the position of Secretary of State of Mississippi by Governor Whitfield after the death of Joseph Withers Power.

[5] He was the president of the Mississippi State Microfilm Department from 1950 until his retirement in December 1956.

[2] Wood died after a long illness on February 3, 1957, in a hospital in Jackson, Mississippi.